In just over 24 hours and after at least four separate ballots, 133 cardinals reached a historic consensus beneath the ...

Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is the first American to lead the Catholic Church and his two older brothers ...

American cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected history’s first-ever pope from the United States hailed him ...

American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was chosen on Thursday by cardinals in a conclave at the Vatican. Catholic worshippers in Nigeria on Friday welcomed the election of the new pope, Leo XIV ...

Standing beneath Michelangelo’s towering fresco of the Last Judgement, newly elected Pope Leo XIV delivered his first papal ...

Many expect the new pontiff to be a bridge-builder in the Vatican, more centrist than liberal or conservative, and a pope who will be guided by the pursuit of social equality and compassion for the po ...

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and ...

Before becoming a pope, Montini spent 25 years as the Archbishop of Milan. The 1963 conclave didn't surprise anyone in Italy, ...

President Lazarus Chakwera and Catholic bishops in the country have joined billions of people globally in congratulating ...

JAKARTA: Indonesian Catholics have joyfully welcomed Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from North America and the Order of ...

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.